Optoturris
Optoturris is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae.[1]
| Optoturris Temporal range: Oligocene - Middle Miocene | |
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| Shell of Optoturris optatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | †Optoturris A.W.B. Powell, 1944 |
| Type species | |
| † Pleurotoma optata G.F. Harris, 1897 | |
Species
Species within the genus Optoturris include:
- † Optoturris editus A.W.B. Powell, 1944
- † Optoturris optatus (G.F. Harris, 1897)
- † Optoturris kyushuensis Shuto, 1961 - Japan (Lower Pliocene)
- † Optoturris paracanthus (Tenison-Woods, 1877)
References
- A.W.B. Powell, The Australian Tertiary Mollusca of the Family Turridae; Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1944)
External links
- Harris G.F. (1897) Catalogue of Tertiary Molluscs in the British Museum of Natural History
- Ludbrook, N. H. "Tertiary molluscan types from Table Cape in Tasmanian Museum, Hobart." Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Vol. 101. 1967.
- Long, D. C. "LATE EOCENE AND EARLY OLIGOCENE TURRIDAE (GASTROPODA: PROSOBRANCHIATA) OF THE BROWN'S CREEK."
- Squires, Don. "A Catalogue in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery" (2012).
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